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Showing posts with label Georgia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Georgia. Show all posts

Wednesday, 5 November 2025

Ode to the sun - David Guramishvili

O radiant sun of light,
A soul-inspiring sight.
I Unrivalled king of kings,
Thy praise through ages rings.

Monday, 4 August 2025

Snow Fell On Winter Gardens - Galaktion Tabidze

Snow fell on winter gardens,
a coffin was brought out
and the standards unfolded
caught by the dishevelled breeze.

Monday, 10 March 2025

O Love Divine! - Alexander Chavchavadze

O love! O mighty love! your power enslaves and holds the heart in thrall.
Even monarchs bend their knees to you, and on your shrine prostrating fall.

Thursday, 23 January 2025

To Russia (The Overseas Ostrich) - Vladimir Mayakovsky

Here I come,
in feathers of stanzas, meter and rhyme,
an overseas ostrich, in sum,
is what I’m.
Trying, do I, my poor noggin to hide,
to deep under jangling of plumage abide.

Thursday, 30 May 2024

The Moon over Mtatsminda - Galaktion Tabidze

My eyes have never seen the moon so lovely as tonight;
In silence wrapt it is the breathless music of the night.
Moonbeams embroider shadows with fine thread of silver light;
O, eyes have never seen the sky so lovely as tonight!

Monday, 29 January 2024

O lovely maid! - Bessiki

O lovely maid, all splendours fade before thy grace!
Soft ringlets deck thy ivory neck and godlike face.
In dreams I kiss thy lips, and bliss my bosom sways.
O radiant eyes, sweet heaven lies beneath your gaze!
Forget me ne'er, O maiden fair of sunlike rays!

Saturday, 30 December 2023

Two blackbirds - Bessiki

Two blackbirds sitting in a cage chant melody
With soothing sounds that tremble on the fragrant air
In numbers soft that swell in music sweet and sad,
Filling the bower with love and purest harmony.

Thursday, 28 December 2023

Song Of Natela - Akaki Tsereteli

I gently strung my chonguri,
And tuned its chords with softness low,
Till every string rang harmony…
Odela-dela-delao!

Wednesday, 30 August 2023

I hate you - I love you - Vazha Pshavela

I hate you because, why are you powerless 
with strong arm and weeping face 
and your fate, fate black fate 
why shrouded always in black? 

Saturday, 3 June 2023

(Nobody knows) Why I loved Fascist - Eka Kevanishvili

I beg your pardon, but
All was well in the beginning
He looked like a guardian angel
Of mine

Wednesday, 19 April 2023

Woes Of Georgia - David Guramishvili

The Turks, Ossetians, Lekis, Persians,
Cherkez, Ghlighvis, Didos and Kists
Were ever Georgia's enemies,
Assaulting her with blood-smeared fists.

Tuesday, 17 January 2023

Dance Lessons (3/4 time) - Diana Anphimiadi

Like an ice-sheet
in the Antarctic
broken, then joined,
go foot to foot
as if finding, or
at least as if searching.

Monday, 7 March 2022

Monday, 11 November 2019

New days are like the changing of water - Nene Giorgadze

New days are like the changing of water.
It’s evening and from far away you see
people’s withering ikebana flowers

Wednesday, 25 September 2019

On the Caprices of Fortune - Shems Almaali Cabus

Why should I blush that Fortune's frown
  Dooms me life's humble paths to tread?
To live unheeded and unknown!
  To sink forgotten to the dead!

Wednesday, 15 May 2019

Monastery in the Hills (Monk's Song) - Dato Barbakadze

Each morning I fetch water from a hidden spring
and quietly watch the changing clouds.
I do not know if I will see another winter
but I am still happy, surrounded by mountains and green places
where so many mortals—so many weak ones—live.

Saturday, 26 January 2019

To All and Everything - Vladimir Mayakovsky

No.
It can’t be.
No!
You too, beloved?
Why? What for?
Darling, look -
I came,
I brought flowers,
but, but... I never took
silver spoons from your drawer!

Thursday, 18 May 2017

Berlin. January - Salome Benidze

Step over the grey corpses of angels
shot by this bleak wall
that path will bring you to me:

Friday, 9 December 2016

I got accustomed to being tired - Maia Sarishvili

I got accustomed to being tired.
It’s like having a live wolf on my back
And feeling him there like a simple schoolbag.

Wednesday, 20 July 2016

A left hand made verse 1 - Kato Javakhishvili

As human creatures do not recognize each other
I think: it’s time for us to stand one after another.
And some time ago, - it was when
I was wrapped in your body as in the wool blanket